How to Evict Your Landlord, part 2: Opportunity knocks

Lake Effect Spotlight · May 22, 2026 · 20m

In part one, we learned about David Tomblin, who owns over 200 rental properties in Milwaukee. But lawsuits brought by the city and major lenders could ultimately take those properties away.

These lawsuits follow a long campaign by Common Ground, a nonpartisan advocacy organization, that united Tomblin’s tenants against him. Today, we look at how Common Ground organized Tomblin’s tenants, and how the Milwaukee City Attorney used his legal power to bring Tomblin to court.

This is part two of “How to Evict Your Landlord,” produced by WUWM’s Jimmy Gutierrez and Lake Effect’s Sam Woods